Handbook of Modernism Studies

Informationen zum Autor Jean-Michel Rabaté , professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) since 1992, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and one of the editors of the Journal of Modern Literature . Co-founder and senior curator of the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, he has authored or edited more than thirty-five volumes on modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary art, and philosophy. Recent books include Crimes of the Future (2014), The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis   (2014), and the edited volume 1922: Literature, Culture and Politics (2015). Klappentext Featuring the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and Kafka to Derrida and Adorno, this bold new collection of essays gives students a deeper grasp of key texts in modernist literature.* Provides a wealth of fresh perspectives on canonical modernist texts, featuring the latest research data* Adopts an original and creative thematic approach to the subject, with concepts such as race, law, gender, class, time, and ideology forming the structure of the collection* Explores current and ongoing debates on the links between the aesthetics and praxis of authors and modernist theoreticians* Reveals the profound ways in which modernist authors have influenced key thinkers, and vice versa Zusammenfassung Featuring the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and Kafka to Derrida and Adorno, this bold new collection of essays gives students a deeper grasp of key texts in modernist literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors vii Introduction 1 Jean-Michel Rabaté 1 Hard and Soft Modernism: Politics as "Theory" 15 Peter Nicholls 2 Streams Beyond Consciousness: Stylistic Immediacy in the Modernist Novel 35 Vicki Mahaffey 3 Modernisms High and Low 55 Eric Bulson 4 Kafka, Modernism, and Literary Theory 75 Vivian Liska 5 Race: Tradition and Archive in the Harlem Renaissance 87 Jeremy Braddock 6 Empire, Imperialism, and Modernism 107 John Marx 7 Marxist Modernisms: From Jameson to Benjamin 123 Catherine Flynn 8 Reactionary Modernism 139 Robert L. Caserio 9 Transnationalism at the Departure Gate 157 Matthew Hart 10 From Ritual to the Archaic in Modernism: Frazer, Harrison, Freud, and the Persistence of Myth 173 Shanyn Fiske 11 Modernism, Orientalism, and East Asia 193 Christopher Bush 12 Translation Studies and Modernism 209 Steven G. Yao 13 Modernism, Mind, and Manuscripts 225 Dirk Van Hulle 14 Modernism and Visual Culture 239 Laura Marcus 15 More Kicks than Pricks: Modernist Body-Parts 255 Maud Ellmann 16 Materialities of Modernism: Objects, Matter, Things 281 Bill Brown 17 Glamour's Silhouette: Fashion, Fashun, and Modernism 297 Judith Brown 18 Otherness and Singularity: Ethical Modernism 313 Marian Eide 19 Phenomenology and Affect: Modernist Sulking 327 Sara Crangle 20 Queer Modernism 347 Benjamin Kahan 21 Cultural Capital and the Revolutions of Literary Modernity, from Bourdieu to Casanova 363 James F. English 22 Modernism and Cognitive Disability: A Genealogy 379 Joseph Valente 23 From Parody to the Event; from Affect to Freedom: Observations on the Feminine Sublime in Modernism 399 Ewa Plonowska Ziarek 24 Aesthetic Formalism, the Form of Artworks, and Formalist Criticism ...

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors vii
 
Introduction 1
Jean-Michel Rabaté
 
1 Hard and Soft Modernism: Politics as ''Theory'' 15
Peter Nicholls
 
2 Streams Beyond Consciousness: Stylistic Immediacy in the Modernist Novel 35
Vicki Mahaffey
 
3 Modernisms High and Low 55
Eric Bulson
 
4 Kafka, Modernism, and Literary Theory 75
Vivian Liska
 
5 Race: Tradition and Archive in the Harlem Renaissance 87
Jeremy Braddock
 
6 Empire, Imperialism, and Modernism 107
John Marx
 
7 Marxist Modernisms: From Jameson to Benjamin 123
Catherine Flynn
 
8 Reactionary Modernism 139
Robert L. Caserio
 
9 Transnationalism at the Departure Gate 157
Matthew Hart
 
10 From Ritual to the Archaic in Modernism: Frazer, Harrison, Freud, and the Persistence of Myth 173
Shanyn Fiske
 
11 Modernism, Orientalism, and East Asia 193
Christopher Bush
 
12 Translation Studies and Modernism 209
Steven G. Yao
 
13 Modernism, Mind, and Manuscripts 225
Dirk Van Hulle
 
14 Modernism and Visual Culture 239
Laura Marcus
 
15 More Kicks than Pricks: Modernist Body-Parts 255
Maud Ellmann
 
16 Materialities of Modernism: Objects, Matter, Things 281
Bill Brown
 
17 Glamour's Silhouette: Fashion, Fashun, and Modernism 297
Judith Brown
 
18 Otherness and Singularity: Ethical Modernism 313
Marian Eide
 
19 Phenomenology and Affect: Modernist Sulking 327
Sara Crangle
 
20 Queer Modernism 347
Benjamin Kahan
 
21 Cultural Capital and the Revolutions of Literary Modernity, from Bourdieu to Casanova 363
James F. English
 
22 Modernism and Cognitive Disability: A Genealogy 379
Joseph Valente
 
23 From Parody to the Event; from Affect to Freedom: Observations on the Feminine Sublime in Modernism 399
Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
 
24 Aesthetic Formalism, the Form of Artworks, and Formalist Criticism 415
Jonathan Loesberg
 
25 Rancière's Aesthetic Regime: Modernism, Politics, and the Logic of Excess 431
Molly Anne Rothenberg
 
Index 445

Bericht

"An invaluable resource for literary theorists and modernism scholars ... Highly recommended." Choice
 
"A handbook, yes, but so much more: an inspiriting demonstration of the divergent, energetic, and innovative approaches that are transforming our sense of how modernism was, is, and one day might be understood. Indispensable, whatever your level of engagement with modernist studies." Maria DiBattista, Princeton University
 
"Jean-Michel Rabaté's expertly assembled Handbook of Modernist Studies rereads Modernist literary texts through the lens of the most recent and up-to-date Continental theory. The 25 essays included here are as comprehensive and authoritative as they are sophisticated." Marjorie Perloff
 
"This superb collection of new essays by leading figures in the field provides the reader with a satisfyingly complete yet also excitingly cutting-edge introduction to the study of Modernism in our time ... Indispensible for both experts and newcomers to the field." Sianne Ngai, Stanford University

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jean Michel Rabat, Jean-Michel Rabat, Jean-Michel Rabate, Jean-Michel Rabaté
• Verlag: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 11.12.2015
• EAN: 9781119121404
• ISBN: 978-1-119-12140-4
• Seiten: 480
• Serien: CTH - Critical Theory Handbooks; Critical Theory Handbooks; Critical Theory Handbooks; CTH - Critical Theory Handbooks
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Literatur, Literaturwissenschaft, Modernismus, Amerika, Literature, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Modernism, Englische Literatur / Moderne